The Unexplained > Cryptozoology
Terrifying Sea Critter Hauled from Ocean's Depths
rylek:
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And here is little something that might interest our crew in France, in case someone offers you Bécasse pâté - you should know this:
--- Quote from: daily parasite ---The parasite for today plays a central role in a gourmet dish, and that culinary parasite is a tapeworm from the genus Amoebotaenia. Amoebotaenia lumbrici, along with a number of other species from its genus, happens to play a starring role in one of the most prized of French dishes. Host of Amoebotaenia are woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) and swarms of these tiny tapeworms live inside the bird's intestine. Woodcocks (also known as Bécasse) are popular game birds and gastronomically valued for its strong and unique flavour and taste. The woodcock is usually oven roasted whole with its innards intact. After it has been roasted, the intestine is removed to be chopped up and made into a pâté. The unique flavour of the pâté has apparently been attributed to all those little tapeworms which are packed into the woodcock's gut.
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This is bit off topic but the last part from Corto mentioning worms reminded me of Casu marzu aka Maggot cheese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_cheese
Yum:)
Maybe they were trying to balance their protein and dairy intake.
Ljubica:
--- Quote from: Mrs.Tigersoap on September 14, 2010, 08:55:28 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ljubica ---Oh gosh, and than knowing that it's closest relatives are parasitic crustacean called Cymothoa exigua that latches onto a fish tongue, specifically a spotted rose snapper's tongue, sucks blood out of the tongue until it atrophies and falls off, and then REPLACES the tongue with ITSELF by attaching itself onto the tongue stub that's left over, or any of it's parasitic relatives like Anilocra capensis and similar isopod parasites that thrive and live on virtually every known fish species, seems like Alien sequel, really ugly.
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:O :scared:
I think it's the most horrible thing I have read (or heard) concerning the animal kingdom!
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Agree, parasites are really horrific, every single kind of them, no matter if they're feeding themselves on vegetation, animals or on human beings (higher densities included).
mkrnhr:
I wonder if we were able tto see the invisible, how spirit attachements would look like..
clerck de bonk:
--- Quote from: mkrnhr on September 15, 2010, 10:52:07 PM ---I wonder if we were able tto see the invisible, how spirit attachements would look like..
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Luckily, at least, :scared: I cannot!
Gonzo:
That is one interesting sea bug. At 2.5 feet long, it would be a little bigger than the alien the exploded out of the guy's chest in Alien. Kind of looks like it too.
Coming from a maritime family, I was the odd one out, in that I actually found sea food and both freshwater and ocean fish rather disgusting. I have no idea where that came from, but, at my young age of 44, I have had little success in intentional desensitization via forcing myself to eat some of these things.
I almost wonder if I had such a traumatic previous life as plankton that the revulsion carried over through all of my past lives. :)
I can now almost enjoy many fish, provided the skin if off and no bone remains. I can almost enjoy scallops and have to work hard to enjoy shrimp. There are elements in the flavour I like, but they are overwhelmed by other flavours for which I do not find pleasant.
This makes me wonder about the psychological component to taste, both in the physical as well as aesthetic sense.
When I see people drooling over some large sea insect like a crab or lobster, I don't get it, and these were regular items in my house growing up. The first time I saw my mother cutting up an octopus tentacle, I was baffled by the thought of why early man would ever have thought to try to eat it. It really looks repulsive to me.
This 2.5 foot-long isopod is interesting from a diversity-of-creation perspective, but to see it as food would never occur to me.
No wonder I was a vegetarian in my late adolescence to mid-twenties.
It certainly would be a good halloween costume, considering the revulsion many have expressed - LOL.
I assume the ascent into lower pressure waters probably killed the poor thing. I wonder what it's next incarnation on the BBM will be - hopefully something with an aversion to latching onto deep sea research vessels.
Gonzo
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